--- title: "19 Modern People Quotes by 16 authors" description: "Browse 19 Modern People quotes by 16 authors. Discover the best Modern People sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/neal-stephenson-362_danger_modern-people-are-calibrated-for-a-whole_578601.png" --- > [“Modern people are calibrated for a whole different level of danger acceptance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-stephenson/modern-people-are-calibrated-for-a-whole-different-level-of-danger/) [Neal Stephenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-stephenson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/neal-stephenson-362_danger_modern-people-are-calibrated-for-a-whole_578601.png) > [When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-i-hear-modern-people-complain-of-being-lonely-then-i-know-what/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/anonymous-1_being-lonely_when-i-hear-modern-people-complain-of-be_2961305.jpg) > [We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-modern-people-think-of-miracles-as-the-suspension-of-the-natural-2/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0d/anonymous-1_miracles_we-modern-people-think-of-miracles-as-th_1052562.jpg) > [Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-robert/modern-people-are-only-willing-to-believe-in-their-computers-while-i/) [Alain Robert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-robert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/673/alain-robert-22056_believe_modern-people-are-only-willing-to-believ_748710.jpg) > [Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-farrell/perhaps-some-day-modern-people-will-learn-that-mystery-is-not-the/) [Walter Farrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-farrell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc5/walter-farrell-84013_home_perhaps-some-day-modern-people-will-lear_116012.jpg) > [modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kurlansky/modern-people-have-seen-too-many-chemicals-and-are-ready-to-go-back/) [Mark Kurlansky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kurlansky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98f/mark-kurlansky-1988_chemicals_modern-people-have-seen-too-many-chemica_558765.png) > [“Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/modern-people-are-just-like-ancient-ones-only-more-numerous/) [Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/076/barbara-kingsolver-200_ancient_modern-people-are-just-like-ancient-ones_1137628.png) > [Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/many-modern-people-have-gone-so-far-in-their-dependence-on-others-for/) [Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a7/rollo-may-1295_existence_many-modern-people-have-gone-so-far-in-t_1734246.jpg) > [This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-schaeffer/this-equation-of-the-impersonal-plus-time-plus-chance-producing-the/) [Francis Schaeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-schaeffer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/164/francis-schaeffer-2607_chance_this-equation-of-the-impersonal-plus-tim_2774793.jpg) > [There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-white/there-are-a-lot-of-historical-novelists-who-do-the-research-about-the/) [Edmund White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5d/edmund-white-2376_about_there-are-a-lot-of-historical-novelists_1877312.jpg) > [It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/it-is-especially-difficult-for-modern-people-to-conceive-that-our/) [Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0e/michael-crichton-694_age_it-is-especially-difficult-for-modern-pe_1066665.jpg) > [“modern people think that any one who makes himself slightly uncomfortable in public will immediately be uproariously popular.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/modern-people-think-that-any-one-who-makes-himself-slightly/) [G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/554/g-k-chesterton-224_modern-people_modern-people-think-that-any-one-who-mak_688557.jpg) > [Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/perhaps-these-ancient-observatories-like-stonehenge-perennially/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/146/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_ancient_perhaps-these-ancient-observatories-like_123115.jpg) > [“We are told that modern couples aren’t as flexible as the Melanesians and many of the societies surveyed earlier. Now that readers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-saxon/we-are-told-that-modern-couples-aren-t-as-flexible-as-the-melanesians/) [Lynn Saxon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-saxon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/lynn-saxon-48255_male-dominance_we-are-told-that-modern-couples-aren-t-a_1783611.jpg) > [A lot of times, people think of Asian culture as some mythical world instead of modern people with modern occupations with modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/constance-wu/a-lot-of-times-people-think-of-asian-culture-as-some-mythical-world/) [Constance Wu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/constance-wu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c0/constance-wu-16043_culture_a-lot-of-times-people-think-of-asian-cul_1927852.jpg) > [It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-farmer/it-s-modern-day-it-is-modern-day-some-of-the-cars-are-older-but-it-is/) [Todd Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-farmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a77/todd-farmer-19376_car_it-s-modern-day-it-is-modern-day-some-of_1701793.jpg) > [“This is the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/this-is-the-only-period-in-all-human-history-when-people-were-proud/) [G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcf/g-k-chesterton-224_history_this-is-the-only-period-in-all-human-his_403296.jpg) > [“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-coupland/there-s-a-hardness-i-m-seeing-in-modern-people-those-little-moments/) [Douglas Coupland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-coupland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/804/douglas-coupland-305_consumption_there-s-a-hardness-i-m-seeing-in-modern_1420139.jpg) > [“It was possible to look at actual smartphones and tablets and laptops that had been manufactured on Old Earth. They did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-stephenson/it-was-possible-to-look-at-actual-smartphones-and-tablets-and-laptops/) [Neal Stephenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-stephenson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9a/neal-stephenson-362_attention-span_it-was-possible-to-look-at-actual-smartp_338033.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/modern-people/#itemlist", "name": "Modern People Quotes", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Modern people are calibrated for a whole different level of danger acceptance.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neal Stephenson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-stephenson/modern-people-are-calibrated-for-a-whole-different-level-of-danger/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/neal-stephenson-362_danger_modern-people-are-calibrated-for-a-whole_578601.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/neal-stephenson-362_danger_modern-people-are-calibrated-for-a-whole_578601.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/neal-stephenson-362_danger_modern-people-are-calibrated-for-a-whole_578601.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Modern people are calibrated for a whole different level of danger acceptance.” — Neal Stephenson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. 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Perhaps, looking at the Melanesians, modern Western women don’t think men should be able to buy, pimp out, and discard young women that way?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lynn Saxon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-saxon/we-are-told-that-modern-couples-aren-t-as-flexible-as-the-melanesians/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/lynn-saxon-48255_male-dominance_we-are-told-that-modern-couples-aren-t-a_1783611.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/lynn-saxon-48255_male-dominance_we-are-told-that-modern-couples-aren-t-a_1783611.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/lynn-saxon-48255_male-dominance_we-are-told-that-modern-couples-aren-t-a_1783611.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We are told that modern couples aren’t as flexible as the Melanesians and many of the societies surveyed…” — Lynn Saxon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A lot of times, people think of Asian culture as some mythical world instead of modern people with modern occupations with modern problems, modern tools. 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It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Todd Farmer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-farmer/it-s-modern-day-it-is-modern-day-some-of-the-cars-are-older-but-it-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a77/todd-farmer-19376_car_it-s-modern-day-it-is-modern-day-some-of_1701793.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a77/todd-farmer-19376_car_it-s-modern-day-it-is-modern-day-some-of_1701793.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a77/todd-farmer-19376_car_it-s-modern-day-it-is-modern-day-some-of_1701793.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are…” — Todd Farmer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“This is the only period in all human history when people were proud of being modern. For though to-day is always to-day and the moment is always modern, we are the only men in all history who fell back upon bragging about the mere fact that to-day is not yesterday. I fear that some in the future will explain it by saying that we had precious little else to brag about. For, whatever the medieval faults, they went with one merit. Medieval people never worried about being medieval; and modern people do worry horribly about being modern.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "G.K. 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Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now. Maybe it's just because I'm with an older gang now.[...]I mean nobody even has hobbies these days. Not that I can see. Husbands and wives both work. Kids are farmed out to schools and video games. Nobody seems able to endure simply being themselves, either - but at the same time they're isolated. People work much more, only go home and surf the Internet and send e-mail rather than calling or writing a note or visiting each other. They work, watch TV, and sleep. I see these things. The world is only about work: work work work get get get...racing ahead...getting sacked from work...going online...knowing computer languages...winning contracts. I mean, it's just not what I would have imagined the world might be if you'd asked me seventeen years ago. 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